Shamcey Supsup Bb. Pilipinas Universe 2011
Congratulations to our girl Shamcey Supsup of General Santos City, Philippines for kicking major, MAJOR BUTT at the Miss Universe 2011 Beauty Pageant which just culminated in the past few minutes! She grabbed the 3rd Runner-up sash, beating Venus Raj by one spot!
Shamcey Supsup had so many detractors – I got comments (which I did not publish at the time) that said stuff like this:
Magiging clapper lang yang si Supsup. Hindi na kayo nadala kila Nina, Zora, at Tere. Sabi nga ni Melanie Marquez “Marami na tayong pinadala na magaling sumagot pero… LUZ VALDEZ!”. Itaga nyo sa bato, LUZ VALDEZ yang si Supsup, parang tuod ang katawan, parang kagat lang ng lamok ang boobs. Walang paki si Mang Donald kung magna/summa/laude pa yan kasi ang habol nya ay magaganda ang mukha at mala dyosa ang katawan. Hello to another year of Drought for the Philippines in Miss Universe!.
Well… to the person who sent the above comment and to people who think this way, I hope you learn a lesson not to be so mayabang. Intelligent girls like Shamcey Supsup can excel in beauty pageants too!!! Besides, even if she didn’t make the cut, Shamcey Supsup is a beautiful woman and it’s too bad that you can’t see beauty with your own two eyes and need a bunch of judges on another part of the planet to tell you who is beautiful… DUH!
So… to those who kept putting down Shamcey Supsup… all I can say is…
Hello to another year of celebration for the Philippines in Miss Universe!!!!!!!!!!!
I compiled a list of articles on Shamcey Supsup here:
Shamcey Supsup was named after a character in a romance novel! Read more here!
What Shamcey Supsup looked like when she won Bb. Pilipinas Universe 2011 at Araneta Coliseum…
Shamcey Supsup is a Magna Cum Laude graduate! Here is her Wikipedia…
She trained in Bogota, Colombia for 10 Days in prepartion for Miss Universe 2011!
Shamcey Supsup ran out of eyelashes in the Miss Universe 2011!
What did Shamcey Supsup do at the Talent Show of Bb. Pilipinas 2011? Click here!
Shamcey Supsup was a top choice for Ines Ligron and former Miss Universe Natalie Glebove! Read it here…
Congrats Shamcey,..
minsan kasi ang mata lang ang ginamit natin pag husga d natin ginamit kasama ang utak
Ganun talaga. There will always be detractors.
At least, she has proven na mali ang binato sa kanya.
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congrats!!!!!!!!!! miss shamcey……………….i love u!!!
Congratulations to Ms. Philippines Shamcey Supsup for winning 3rd runner up in Miss Universe 2011!
congrats miss philippines….you’ve done great!!!!!
Im happy but not Completely Satisfied to the total outcome of this Universe pageant I feel that Shamcey Supsup got been cheated to the final results,If U all just think, I really believed shes more beautiful & answer the question better than Miss Ukraine & Miss Brazil & Shamcey have the highest fan scores to entire Universe so she should be the Miss Universe,because even Miss Angola have un finish answer, also shamcey is the only 5 finalist who can understand english & able to answer of her own without getting any help,& to the last words what Shamcey said to her answer is I strongly agree that the person who would want her should love her GOD too which means she include the entire universe,because there are so many religions out there that believed in other gods that u might not believe into.So I dont understand why she went to 3rd place only? where she should deserve better than Brazil & Ukraine & should be even to Miss Angola! I pray & hope some one with pure heart can clarified all that mess cos its really a big shame to the ENTIRE UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!!! But otherwise may god bless Miss Shamcey Supsup & her families! also God bless those peoples who cheated her on that final results & hope to god will give more in returns to MIss Shamcey Supsup cos she deserved it!!! & its not the end of the world Shamcey this is just the beginning!!!
though she didnt win the crown, being in the top 5 is already an honor. iba talaga ang galing ng pinay!!!!
u deserve to be the ms universe 2011!!
congratulations Ms. Supsup! You represented the country well… we are proud of you.
I believe Shamcey should have been the winner. The top 5 had all their previous competition scores erased and competed on equal footing. The final competition: cerebral prowess, the ability to answer intelligently question in front of billions of spectators. Shamcey is the only one among the five who answered impromptu , straight to the point, and without the aid of an interpreter who can spice up one’s answer to the judges’ liking. The questions asked of other contestants are dime-a-dozen in all beauty contests, and answers are standard fares even in gay beauty contests. The question asked of Shamcey addressed not just the intellect, not just the emotion, but more importantly one’s spirituality because it touched on one’s religious conviction. And this could be very much subject to controversy– just like the experience of a previous Miss California who lost the Miss USA crown because of a “politically incorrect” answer on gay marriages. Thanks to Shamcey’s innate intelligence, she answered the question well. With due respects to Miss Angola, she being a student in UK speaks English very well. Her use of an interpreter gave her an advantage because she can have precious time to think about her answer. The added advantage was the instant connection with the Portuguese-speaking audience (she comes from a Portuguese- speaking country like Brazil), which gave her a thunderous applause that rightly or wrongly could influence the judges. And of course, just in any interpretation setting ,when the interpreter transmits the answer in English, it would have been cleansed of grammatical lapses, wrong idioms, etcetera, that the final message would sound intelligent. Just like in gymnastics, there should have been a degree-of- difficulty factor in the judging. Chamcey had the highest degree-of-difficulty yet delivered one of the most honest and intelligent answers to a Miss Universe question.
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MISS PHILIPPINES-Universe 2011: Beauty and Brains Beyond Universal
By ARIEL ALLERA
Much as I’d like to blog about something new, I can’t afford to let go of my own share of retrospect on last September 6′s Miss Universe 2011 event. Quite understandable, because aside from being a pageant fanatic, a frustrated beauty queen, and a mentor to aspiring beauty queens, I will always be proud of every Filipino, past and present, who has made a mark in any international beauty quest.
Miss Philippines Shamcey Supsup may not have come home with the coveted Miss Universe 2011 crown, but she’s brought pride and honor to our country by placing 3rd runner-up. Talks and blogs have it that she should’ve placed higher. As far as I’m concerned, she could have either clinched the crown or gotten the first runner-up position had most of the judges been receptive to and respectful enough of her honest-to-goodness answer to such a make-or-break question asked during the final round. However, I’d like to think that the result was fair, and I highly respect the judges’ decision.
In all fairness to Miss Angola Leila Lopes (the winner), she had the most beautiful face among the 15 semi-finalists. She reminds me of her fellow exotic beauty from her continent, Nigeria’s Agbani Darego, who won the 2001 Miss World crown in South Africa, but had been misplaced at Miss Universe 2001 held in Puerto Rico a few months prior (Denise Quinones of the host country won the night). Anyhow, Miss Ukraine Olesya Stefanko (first runner-up) was also seductive and glamourous.
Shamcey Supsup was exceptional. She’s a dead ringer for Binibining Pilipinas-International 1996 Yedda Marie Mendoza Kittilsvedt and Binibining Pilipinas-Universe 2007 Anna Theresa Licaros mixed. She had the best walk and the best style. She displayed the most grace and elegance, and delivered the most substantial answer in terms of honesty and conviction. Morever, who wouldn’t have been impressed by the fact that, of all the five finalists, she was the only one who needed no interpreter? For that she should’ve been given extra points.
Any true-blue Filipino everywhere would be proud of and happy for Shamcey’s feat at the pageant. But because we can’t please everybody, some may have blamed her for sounding too religiously fanatic in her response to the final question: “Would you change your religious beliefs to marry the person that you love? Why or why not?”
She replied, “If I had to change my religious beliefs, I would not marry the person that I love, because the first person I love is God, who created me. I have my faith and my principles, and this is what makes me who I am. And if that person loves me, he should love my God, too.”
I could hardly see anything wrong with that, with being honest and humble in a beauty pageant. It’s just so unbecoming that some title-holders won in their respective competitions owing to their answer that the judges and the audience wanted to hear. Hence, most contestants are pressed to answer against their personal choice and opinion, because they’re afraid to lose their chance of winning.
Please spare Shamcey, for she stood her ground with conviction as a God-centered human being and pride as an exemplary Filipina. Born brainy and bold, she did not come through a traditional method of training wherein beauty-queen wannabes are taught to lie and be politically correct for the sake of winning.
I reviewed the pageant a few days ago. Donald Trump was right about choosing Brazil as this year’s host country, because its culture is so rich as it was evident in the pageant’s stage. It might not be as majestic as that at Miss Universe 2000 in Cyprus (crown won by my all-time favorite beauty queen, India’s Lara Dutta) or as big as that at Miss Universe 2004 in Equador (Australia’s Jennifer Hawkins was crowned), but Brazil’s production was awesome. It was festive that they let each of the candidates introduce herself onstage, rather than having the segment pre-taped from a separate location. It could, however, have also been taped onstage beforehand, but to the televiewers worldwide it looked as if it was done live.
I wish the present organizers could create an opening production number again that’s as visually enthralling as that of Miss Universe 2004, wherein USA’s Shandi Finnessey brought the house down with her hip-swaying. Such dance number may be a good ice-breaker for all those delegates coming from different countries and competing for one coveted crown. Plus, let’s face it: It’s pleasing to see all equally beautiful women dancing together, isn’t it? If I may remember it right, legendary pageant choreographer Scott Grossman did it and made it classy. If I may remember it right, legendary pageant choreographer Scott Grossman did it. He’s the hot man onstage, during his terms with the organization, who was tasked to hand bouquets to special award winners, the runners-up and, of course, the Miss Universe.
This year’s production number into each segment (the swimsuit competition as well as the evening gown competition) was eye-popping. What I like about Miss Universe compared to other pageants is that, like science, it undergoes change and development, as the structures of the universe. Gone are the days when girls dilly-dallied in their evening gowns. Such old-school style is common in neighborhood and municipal beauty contests, and even in some national and international pageants except for Miss Universe and Miss World. I found this year’s host Andy Cohen as delicious as his voice and accent. To me he’s the hottest host that Miss Universe pageant has invited.
To Shamcey Supsup, thank you for uplifting the image of our country. The same goes to Maria Venus Raj, for placing fourth runner-up in last year’s edition of Miss Universe pageant: You paved the way for aspiring Filipina beauty queens. On the other hand, it’s quite interesting to note that it was also in (Sao Paulo) Brazil where our very own Chat Almarvez had won the first runner-up award in the prestigious Ford Supermodel of the World 2010 competition. A big thanks to her as well.
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To those who were not able to read, let me share an article that I wrote about Shamcey Supsup before she left the country to compete in the Miss Universe 2011 pageant. I hope that, through this, you will get to know more about our very own beauty queen and admire her brains beneath those Chi-done waves, not to mention have a glimpse of her inner being through the grace and elegance of her tsunami walk. Thank you.
SHAMCEY SUPSUP: Beauty, Brains and Beyond
A beauty-and-brains combo can be hard to find among pageant contestants. More often if a candidate is too pretty, her Intelligence Quotient is scarcely high enough to match. There may be others who are blessed with a little bit of everything — lovely face, smooth skin, curvy figure, height of five-feet-seven or better, or just enough guts to say something during question-and-answer.
But if you’re judging a beauty contest, and there’s one girl onstage standing before you, alongside her equally gorgeous fellow contestants, and you knew that she graduated with Latin honors and she was a board topnotcher, why would you have to look around and find someone else?
This year, our country has chosen its national queen whose charm is as unquestionable as her wit. Recently crowned Binibining Pilipinas – Universe 2011, Shamcey Supsup has proven a woman’s worth by defining beauty at par with brains.
She’s not the first title-holder who has graduated Magna Cum Laude (from the University of the Philippines-Diliman), but her placing first in the 2010 Philippine Architecture Licensure Examination is what makes most of us hold her in higher esteem — than winning that coveted crown of the night. In a country where kids are told to study hard as soon as they start going to school, Supsup will serve as a role model for young girls out there who want to make a stride into the world of pageantry.
While most national beauty contests require girls to be at least high school graduates who are between 18 years old and 25, a completed undergraduate educational attainment will still be the best preparation, let alone weapon.
Not only will it have molded their minds, thus making them more confident throughout the competition, from pre-pageant interviews to the final question-and-answer in the coronation night, it will be easy for the winner to fulfill her duties and responsibilities during her reign. And then, she can pursue her long-term dream, be it in show business, or in the corporate world, or in the medical profession. It depends, though, on the girl’s physical potentiality and mental preparedness. Mutya Ng Pilipinas 1993 Michelle Aldana was still studying Speech and Drama at the University of the Philippines-Diliman when she joined the pageant. Her stature, spontaneity and fresh Filipina beauty won for our country the last Miss Asia-Pacific title.
Supsup will be competing in the Miss Universe pageant come September, to be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil. There’s no question to the way former Miss Universes have been selected, but almost always the Miss Universe Organization is hounded by controversies about their basis for selection of the semi-finalists. Many pageant experts and analysts have wondered how come that lousy lady from Europe made it to the semi finals, while this elegant lass from Asia barely did.
It goes without saying that results are always unpredictable and that we can only expect the unexpected. However, as soon as the semi-finalists start strutting their stuff and pivoting their way onstage, we cannot help noticing one or two finalists looking so out of place in swimsuit and in evening gown. Our country has sent sexier and prettier delegates to all international beauty pageants out there, but to no avail. We might as well support someone like Shamcey Supsup whose resume is as eloquent as her personality, a representative who can interact well with her co-candidates, the press, the sponsors, the organizers, the bigwigs of the host country.
Never mind the Final Question segment, for we cannot blame delegates who answer in their mother tongue. Intelligence is not measured by someone’s command of English, in a country where they’re using their native language as medium of instruction. But if we talk about a non-English speaking finalist’s gist of her answer, only the interpreter can admit to either translating her thoughts as is, or glossing over its content to make it sound more sensible.
And if, God willing, Shamcey Supsup brings home the crown this year, then she will be the next Miss Universe from the Philippines since 1973. But all the same, she will always be a full-fledged, one-of-a-kind icon of beauty and brains, born to be our country’s cream of the crop, donning the sash as the Philippines’ most beautiful woman, wearing the medal for being the most intelligent architect around.
reAlly love being a filipino.. of course.. a General.. Congratulations Shamcey!
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